underpinned

The post-WWII system of international alliances, underpinned by NATO, is now in grave peril of being unraveled.

BBC News NI has seen an extract from an executive document which underpinned Monday's budget reallocation, known as a monitoring round.

This same principle, streamlined to “Nothing about us without us,” has underpinned popular social movements of our time.

Critics praised the ambition of Tafdrup's film, which the New York Times called "utterly fearless in its mission to unsettle", underpinned by its shocking final scenes.

To understand how a refurbishment could have created the possibility of such a disaster, we have to look at what underpinned all that work - the building regulations.